A long time ago, you could go on the Jenni-o turkey website and request a $5 coupon. I did, but never had a chance to use the coupon after it arrived. It stayed in my purse, but I’d pretty much forgotten about it. Until this week. Walmart had their Jennie-o turkeys on sale for $.40 a pound, so I went to buy one (after buying one at Aldi earlier for $.99/lb – wish I would’ve known about the Walmart sale […]
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If you’ve been looking for a post with all the links for the Coupons 101 series in one place, you’ve found it. Coupons 101 – Getting Coupons Coupons 101 – Organizing Coupons 101 – Price Books Coupons 101 – Know your prices Coupons 101 – Ethics
Continue ReadingCoupons 101 – Ethics
There is one more thing about coupons that isn’t necessarily a “how-to,” but more of a reminder. Ethics and doing what is right. When a store has a super sale going on, and you can get things for really cheap or even free, go ahead and take advantage of it. Buy what you can and put some back for later. Most sales go in cycles, but it could be quite a while before you see a price like that on […]
Continue ReadingCoupons 101 – Know your prices
One of the next steps to couponing is knowing your prices. I think that is one of the more time-consuming (at first) parts of couponing. It’s not impossible, but can be a challenge sometimes. What it boils down to is knowing what your absolute lowest price is for an item. A coupon does you no good if you can go elsewhere and get an identical (or sometimes better) item for the same or lower price. This is where having a […]
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I’m going to interrupt my coupon series here to blog a little about a price book. It’s not absolutely vital to couponing, but it is such a HUGE help that I wanted to include it at this point. A price book is valuable whether or not you use coupons though – so hopefully this post will be a help to someone. A price book is some sort of document or book that contains current prices for items that you normally […]
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This is Part 2 of my coupon series. You can read the first part Coupons 101 – Getting Coupons here. The next thing you’ll need is a way to organize the coupons. I use a 3-ring binder. It’s nice and portable, and can be customized to whatever extent that you like. You can view my coupon binder here. My friends Tammy and Annie use boxes for theirs. Some people don’t even clip their coupons ahead of time – they file […]
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There are probably hundreds of “how to coupon” posts around the web, as well as entire blogs, websites, and forums dedicated to the subject. Since it’s something that saves me a good bit of money, I figured I’d blog a bit about it here as well. This post has gotten longer and longer, so I’ll post it as part of a series. Who knows how long the series will get. One of the first things you’ll need to get started […]
Continue ReadingCoupons – personal best
Since today was the last day of Harris Teeter’s triple coupons, I decided to stop in and see if anything was in stock. The other day there was hardly anything on my coupon list that was in stock, but today there was a good bit of the things I had been wanting to get. I just blinked at the total when the cashier stopped entering coupons. Total due: $1.45. Wow. I’d expected it to be pretty low because I didn’t […]
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Michele posted earlier today, showing her love addiction for coffee. Actually, it was left over from her MOPS meeting, but I have no room to criticize. She showed five bottles of creamer in her frig. There are eight bottles in mine. I thought I’d show her the inside of my frig, so she wouldn’t feel bad. This is the top shelf in the frig door. We normally only have one bottle of liquid creamer in the house. But last week […]
Continue ReadingCoupon craziness
First of all, let me just say that I am immensely grateful for coupons and the stores that multiply them. That helps our grocery budget so much. This week, Harris Teeter is doing a triple coupons promotion. I usually find out about these a week or so in advance, thanks to coupon forums like www.hotcouponworld.com and www.afullcup.com (I subscribe to the forums in a feed reader – so it doesn’t take long at all to skim post titles to read […]
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